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This should be considered more of a side project than a startup.

One issue Groupon have is to review their cut to the lower, recurring complaint is the fact that they charge almost at least 50% of the sale, for most small businesses the discount + Groupon cut is just unsustainable.

Given the fact that reviews make or breaks products, companies now have great incentives in playing the reviews game. I have seen so many crappy products being praise by crazy reviews with generic theme like "I bought it for my son, my husband and he loves it". High profile catch like this will make it harder for companies to just spin their way trough crappy products.

I’m building the coolest marketing tool since the rolodex.

"Guess what? I don't give a fuck!" Reality is I heard that before, if you run a startup I'm sure you have too.

Clickable: http://eretail.yobiz.com/ips/index.php

Man this is funny, thank God I havent seen the AOL CD in a while

"STFU and go cash your check, numnutts."

Running a startup is way much difficult than working for Facebook.

Please no Facebook, they already control most of our lives lets not let them watch over what we say and who we talk to.

With their record of taking cool companies down the drain, I worry about this AOL shopping spree.

Good points Rich; I just wonder if it is appropriate to post an opinion about this debate from company blog.

What a careless advice, your are just telling him: just play lottery! With all due respect to YC, getting into YC is not easy.

1000 servers per week number is not just realistic. I will like to believe the author misspoke otherwise it will take more that Zynga employees just to configure 1000 servers in a week time.

The site is good, idea is fresh. Just one thing, search needs more work, I will suggest you make regular search work first before going instant.

These are 22 yo words, at the time he was still uncertain of the future as all of us have been at some point in our lives. It will be wrong and kinda unfair to hold these words against him.

I have learned something over few years building tools for my startup and friends. You should identify constructive feedbacks and the one designed to tell everyone: stay away from this product. You should make an effort to respond vigorously to the latter so it does not suck out all the oxygen out of your product existence.

Your response here tells everyone: yeah his right you should come back when I have made the magic work according to this guy. What you don’t know is that the guy will criticize you anyway because he is actually criticizing your existence. My take is you should not let that happen.

How can that feedback be helpful to you? he is just saying your service should not exist. I think instead of bending down and take it and being nice you should prove him wrong by arguing the WHY USE of your product.

It would be nice to have a how it works page, you must give me a compelling reason for me to signup my credit card, at least I will like to know how it work.

Does anyone really thinks Google is too slow?

$33K is pretty low in most places in the US, How do you manage to stay focus on runing the business?

$275K not bad by most standard, you earned it!

How much?

Are you using TC name for your own free PR? It look like it to me.

Please talk to a lawyer.

In retrospect Microsoft could sue any company with soft in their name; God knows how many software companies use the suffix Soft. What Facebook is doing is simply not positive.

Not necessary better quality post but better income; key for the blog survival.

From what I can tell there’s a huge bond between the two

Not to take anything away from the guys, but it is not fair to lineup DuckDuckGo aside Google, Bing and Cuil. It’s simply misleading, yes DuckDuckGo is an interface to search engines.

Unless you are in a great need of cash, I will strongly advise you to go to college. Few years of college will do you better that just get you a degree.

When you are 18yo school is really important, not to be paternalistic here, you have all the time to really figure out what you want to be in life. If you were founding a startup with friends I would say go for it; if you parents support you I will say go to college please.